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Those who are supposedly part-time officials, like Baldwin, make as little as $85 a week. Even the full-time incumbents get meager pay, from which must be deducted the psychic cost of public cynicism. Don Quaintance of Marion, Ohio, a white-haired, avuncular former businessman who got to the mayor's chair in middle age, thinks that kind of attitude has grown a lot during his eight years in office. He bitterly recalls a dinner with his wife and some friends at the country club. Talk got around to inflation and the size of his salary...
Hardly. Each mayor figures that he really is making a difference. Ted Crozier has shaken up the police department; he has even got his 92-man police force to jog it self into shape. Richard Verbic of Elgin, Ill., a dentist, boasts of completing an other kind of bridge - a $1.2 million span over the Fox River, which the town needed for 20 years. Richard Baker is proud of having brought the Little League World Series to Newark for the third year running; no other town in the country can match that claim. Don Quaintance thinks he might like...
...understand the problem and rally in support of leadership, there is no problem they can't overcome." Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso advised Carter to "go out on the stump and talk to the people the way you just talked to us." The President took it all cheerfully; several guests got an impression that he feels isolated in the White House...
...urban crisis, growing racial polarization, a moral crisis. You get all these together and you have a civilizational crisis." At another point, speaking to Carter directly about the vulnerability of the U.S. caused by oil imports, Jackson came up with a back-alley metaphor: "Mr. President, we've got our vital organs over the fence and our neighbors have the knife...
...believe that we have now got such a horrible conglomeration of confusion in the energy field that nobody knows what is going to happen." So said Jimmy Carter -two years ago. His solution then was the creation of a new Cabinet-level Department of Energy, now budgeted at $11 billion a year and staffed by 20,000 employees. Yet his description of the situation serves as well today as it did before the department was created...